Discover the best tourist attractions of western Ukraine with Maria Zawaski! Maria is a freelance journalist, born on the West of Ukraine, got married to Canada. "Now, when I live abroad, I recommend to all my foreign friends to visit western part of my home country Ukraine. Why the western one - it is because I used to live there, so I am more familiar with that part of the country and I can tell lots of stories about the culture, lifestyle and traditions of Ukrainian West," Maria says

Etnovyr International Folklore Festival in Lviv

Etnovyr is a name of the International Folklore Festival in Lviv, western Ukraine.
This festival is annual – every year in August folk musicians and dancers from all over the world are coming to Lviv to participate in great concerts and street parades. 2011 was first year, when they had also food pavilions from
different countries on the festival; and, as always during the Etnovyr festival, they had an amazing craft shopping.
Here are some videos of folklore performances from different countries at the Etnovyr 2011.

Lous de Bazats, France:

Arrola Dantza Taldea, Basque Country:

Halychyna Ensemble, Lviv, Ukraine:

Sacred Drums, Burundi:

The Castiglion Fiorentino Historical Group, Tuscany, Italy:

And finally, a street parade of all the participants of Etnovyr 2011 Festival in Lviv:

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You don’t need visa for travel to Ukraine

If you are citizen of USA, Canada, European Union, Switzerland or Liechtenstein, you don’t need a TOURIST visa for travel to Ukraine. Decree about it was signed in 2005. Tourist visa to Ukraine means that you are going to stay in Ukraine not more than 90 days. So for your short term stay in Ukraine (less than 90 days) you just need to have a travel passport and to buy a ticket, that’s it.
P.S. The same rules work for the citizens of Japan, Andorra, Vatican, Iceland, Monaco, Norway and San Marino. People of these countries don’t need a tourist visa to Ukraine, too.